I'm idly curious what the fuck this person is talking about with their legal career being taken away. Don't suppose you know?
Not sure its worth trying to figure it out, it would take a true brainworm host to think "in a fair world I would have more than all of you" is a sympathetic statement and I don't know I'm capable of understanding the leaps of logic presumably underpinning their resentment.
I dunno who this is or where they are or what the EFF is but I am now going to go and educate myself. Fucken a.
I dunno why they keep bringing it back when they can just send it on down the river like us but who are we to try and understand the psychology of the downstreamers.
I thought my politics were already pretty good at the time, but I confess that until the crimes of Ben Roberts-Smith were exposed (apparently) had I never interrogated my beliefs and attitudes about the Australian SAS. I knew a boomer who was SAS and he was okay (child me thought) and so my personal experience aligned with the propaganda and I never had reason to question it.
I don't gotta give him credit, sooner or later one of these sadistic murderers was going to get outed or would out themselves online for clout. But I'm not too proud to admit that its this case that caused those particular scales to fall from my eyes. Way too recent to not be a bit embarrassing.
The SAS is like a sacred cow in Australia. They're at once stone cold killers, athletes, polyglots, warrior poets, and morally unassailable owing to their perfectly measured surgical precision and the judiciousness with which they are deployed.
The most likely and least funny explanation. shucks.
The language isn't a problem. Loads of people in China, especially in and around universities, are fluent in English. Plus OP would get to learn Mandarin in arguably the best environment for it.
(arguably because sometimes you just wanna practice your mandarin but everyone else wants to use their english. many such cases. my experience and so many people I've talked to about this lol)
I've been to China multiple times and I find the Arctic Circle very appealing as a life experience / novelty / adventure but I would still choose two years in China over one in the arctic.
It would be (presumably) a good career move, an excellent cultural experience, more time away, more exposure to mandarin = quicker and easier to learn, you'd get to see what a real modern country is like and possibly form connections or even friendships with people who might be in a position to work on projects with real positive impact.
Over the span of two years you'd have a few days here and there that you'd need to occupy and China has lots of distinct unique places and cultures, and of course the variety of climates / biomes.
Also what you said about China taking climate change seriously is representative of I think the biggest appeal for me, which would be the mental relief I'd get living somewhere that takes things seriously, is serious about solving problems and that has a proper healthy respect for science and reason. At a policy level anyway-
A friend of mine taught there for a bit over a decade and is a lot less prone to romanticizing everything. In day to day life China isn't an especially rational and efficient place, not tryna sound naive and utopian. But on the whole they are pushing consistently in the right direction on policy and implementation, and for me that would be very subconsciously comforting thing.
Like how libs get to feel when brunch isn't cancelled. I want that. I want communist brunch and I want it for you too.
But the Arctic Circle option would be fucking cool too, what an awesome decision to have to make. 
Does anyone know which thread caused the issue in particular with the user bumping the thread and repeatedly causing crashes?
Probably wasn't me. 
We're the tip of the spear. 
I'm gonna irresponsibly wager it was a Japanese ship doing intentional provocation modeled after Australian and American naval games of chicken.
Gonna see if I can find out more tho. Doubt it was Australia but I'd like to know if it was, we've done it before.
Edit: There's PLA drone footage online from the last 24 hours apparently tracking a Japanese Destroyer moving through the taiwan strait. Haven't confirmed its related but I'll take my winnings whenever.
Hopefully China is realising based on *gestures at everything else* that they can in fact stand on business with the south china sea and the rest of the world will not implicitly support American primacy in these matters.
Not to say its necessarily an American boat they drove away, the west is always pulling these naval fake-outs for the sake of testing China's response and to generally undermine their legitimacy. It's so provocative.
I'm sure some policy wonk would know better to me its childish and petulant.
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I dunno if I'm just especially sensitive right now but it made me a bit 
its a relief to have someone else say some of this stuff and validate some of the coping mechanisms.
I would probably have shown this to some people IRL if it wasn't a bit aggrandizing. Not inappropriately so, but enough that I wouldn't expect someone to look past it if they didn't understand what any of this is like.
I would like to pay my respects to the indigenous people of the occupied territories known as Canada whose brave taxpayers funded this badpost video which I have liberated.
I expect I'll be remembered as a powerful ally for my economic harrying efforts.
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tovar be careful in those freight facilities
psst! get out there dude! go! we're so fuckin proud of you dude, now GO! make them happy!!
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One serve of staccato flow on the carpenter chills please.
thank you drive through please 
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Have you?
Never? 
There's some fun replies actually, I don't regret this yet.
https://xcancel.com/KuaiLe_fengnan1/status/2033193118678601911#m weeew
machine translation for those without a click to give.
(Sorry for the butchery. I do not use sophisticated software.)